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Originally Posted by zen_tom
Yes, a determined hacker could write a virus that targets Macs, but why bother? It wouldn't get the population necessary (due to the low numbers) to make it worth-while. As the number grows, expect more threats.
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Good hackers do something to prove it can be done. They like the challenge. This proves that virus writers must not be made up of very many 1337 hackers if there are still <10 linux viruses and whatever small number for macs.
What would be really awesome (well, awesome isn't really the word...) is if somebody managed to come up with a cross-platform virus. It'd have to have some way to perform OS fingerprinting, and then choose what to do from there. Probably make for a bulky virus, but even a 2 meg proof-of-concept would be cool.